comarca
English
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Borrowed from Spanish comarca.
Pronunciation
Noun
comarca (plural comarcas)
- A traditional region or local administrative division found in parts of Spain, Portugal, Panama, Nicaragua, and Brazil.
Translations
a traditional region or local administrative division found in parts of Spain, Portugal, Panama, Nicaragua, and Brazil
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Catalan
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): (Northern, Central) [kuˈmar.kə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [koˈmar.kə]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [koˈmaɾ.ka]
- IPA(key): (Northwestern) [koˈmar.ka]
Audio (Barcelona): (file)
Noun
comarca f (plural comarques)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “comarca”, in Diccionari de la llengua catalana [Dictionary of the Catalan Language] (in Catalan), second edition, Institute of Catalan Studies [Catalan: Institut d'Estudis Catalans], April 2007
- “comarca”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2026
- “comarca” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- Alcover, Antoni Maria; Moll, Francesc de Borja (1963), “comarca”, in Diccionari català-valencià-balear (in Catalan)
Galician
Etymology
From Old Galician-Portuguese comarca (13th century, Cantigas de Santa Maria), a back-formation from comarcar (“to share limits”),[1] from co- (“with”) + marcar (“to delimit”), from marco (“boundary stone”), attested since the 9th century in local Latin documents, as well as its derivatives marcar and demarcar (“to delimit”).
Given its early local documentation it can not be a borrowing from Old Italian, but from Gothic or Suevic [Term?] instead.[2] Ultimately from Proto-Germanic *markō (“boundary, region”), from Proto-Indo-European *mórǵs (“boundary, border”).
Compare Sicilian cumarca.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koˈmaɾka/ [koˈmaɾ.kɐ]
- Rhymes: -aɾka
- Hyphenation: co‧mar‧ca
Noun
comarca f (plural comarcas)
- a district, province or territory; a shire
- Synonym: bisbarra
- 1391, M. Lucas Álvarez, P. Lucas Domínguez, editors, El priorato benedictino de San Vicenzo de Pombeiro y su colección diplomática en la Edad Media, Sada / A Coruña: Ediciós do Castro, page 106:
- e que nos diades mays uos e todas uosas uozes para senpre de cada hun anos hun porco chamoscado, que seja sen maliça, con pan e con vino, segundo huso e costume da comarca
- and you and your successors shall give us, each year and forever, a singed pork, free of any malice, with bread and wine, as it is customary in the shire
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References
- “comarca”, in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega (in Galician), A Coruña: Royal Galician Academy, 2012–2026
- “comarca”, in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (in Galician), 2014–2026
- Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “comarca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Seoane, Ernesto Xosé González; Granja, María Álvarez de la; Agrelo, Ana Isabel Boullón (2006–2022), “comarcar”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios do galego medieval [Dictionary of dictionaries of Medieval Galician] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Barreiro, Xavier Varela; Guinovart, Xavier Gómez (2006–2018), “comarca”, in Corpus Xelmírez: corpus lingüístico da Galicia medieval [Corpus Xelmírez: linguistic corpus of Medieval Galicia] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Santamarina, editor (2006–2013), “comarca”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Santamarina, Ernesto X. González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “comarca”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- ^ Coromines, Joan; Pascual, José Antonio (1983–1991), “marcar”, in Diccionario crítico etimológico castellano e hispánico [Critical Castilian and Hispanic etymological dictionary][1] (in Spanish), Madrid: Gredos
- ^ Rivas Quintas, Eligio (2015). Dicionario etimolóxico da lingua galega. Santiago de Compostela: Tórculo. →ISBN, s.v. marco.
Italian
Noun
comarca f (plural comarche)
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Portuguese
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Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /koˈmaʁ.kɐ/ [koˈmah.kɐ]
- (São Paulo) IPA(key): /koˈmaɾ.kɐ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA(key): /koˈmaʁ.kɐ/ [koˈmaχ.kɐ]
- (Caipira) IPA(key): /koˈmaɻ.kɐ/
- (Portugal) IPA(key): /kuˈmaɾ.kɐ/
- Hyphenation: co‧mar‧ca
Noun
comarca f (plural comarcas)
- (dated) administrative division or territory, especially one close to boundaries
- (law) a region under the rule of one or more judges or courts
Further reading
- “comarca”, in Dicionário Aulete Digital (in Portuguese), Rio de Janeiro: Lexikon Editora Digital, 2008–2026
- “comarca”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2026
Spanish
Etymology
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From co- + marca. Compare Sicilian cumarca.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /koˈmaɾka/ [koˈmaɾ.ka]
Audio (Venezuela): (file) - Rhymes: -aɾka
- Syllabification: co‧mar‧ca
Noun
comarca f (plural comarcas)
Further reading
- “comarca”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), 24th edition, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 30 October 2026
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